Monday, November 2, 2009

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." - Plato

"What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

I received the following information in an e-mail from Nancy Shollenberger over the weekend. There have been quite a few questions about the upcoming election schedule and when certain things are due. This pretty much answers everything.

This is a NEWS RELEASE FROM THE CITY CLERK, NANCY SUE SHOLLENBERGER, announcing the upcoming election for three City Council seats.

The General Municipal Election is scheduled for April 13, 2010.

December 7, 2009 City Council adopts Resolutions calling the election

December 14th Last Day to Adopt Regulations for Candidates Statements

Dec. 21 to Jan. 15th Filing Period for Nomination Papers and Candidate's Statement

or January 19th if City Hall is closed on Friday and Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Jan. 15-19 2010 Last Days to file Nomination Papers

Jan. 20th Last Day to File Nomination Papers - Extended Filing Period

Jan. 21, 2010 Secretary of State to Determine Order of Names on Ballot

March 4, 2010 Last day to File Campaign Expenditure Statements- 1st Pre-election Statement

March 15, 2010 First Day to Mail Out Permanent Vote-by-Mail Voter Ballots

March 15 - April 6 Voters May Request Vote-by-Mail Ballots with Regular Applications

March 23rd Last Day to Mail Sample Ballots and Polling Place Notices

March 29th Last Day to Register to Vote

April 1 Last day to File Campaign Expenditure Statements - 2nd Pre-election Statement

April 1 Post Notice - Vote-by-Mail Canvass

April 3 Publish Notice of Central Counting Place

April 6 Last Day for Election Official to Publish Notice of Nominees

April 9 Suggested Last Day to Post Notice of Manual Tally

APRIL 13, 2010 ELECTION DAY

No later than May 7th Election official to Canvass the Returns

No later than May 7th Declaration of the Results

April 19 - May 7th Reorganize Council and Choose Mayor and Mayor Pro Tem

May 19 - June 6th Last Day to File Statement of Economic Interests (Form 700)

July 31, 2010 Last Day to File Campaign Expenditure Statements

This will get our residents geared up for the election process. It is an involved process.

City Clerk, Nancy Sue Shollenberger, invites any interested residents who wish to run for City Council to call her at 626/355-3303; fax 626/355-1546; e-mail nnshol@aol.com. All you need to do is make an appointment and the City Clerk will be happy to meet with you at your convenience to receive paperwork necessary to run for City Council. All paperwork MUST BE given to the City Clerk, and not staff at City Hall. Anything that is expected to go into the Sample Ballot MUST BE given personally to the City Clerk, and not staff at City Hall.

The election is the responsibility of the City Clerk in Sierra Madre. Your help in this matter is deeply appreciated.

The City Clerk is looking forward to running another election in Sierra Madre and looks forward to working with the residents. She is available at your convenience. All it takes is a phone call.

The e-mail was sent to the Sierra Madre Tattler and Mountain Views News on November 1, 2009 for publication and public information by the City Clerk.

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Quotes On Government

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"What we call civilized society is in reality a vast insane asylum held together at the points of guns." - Vito Caporale

"In our civilization, and under our form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." - Ambrose Bierce

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain

"I would rather lose in a cause that will someday win, than win in a cause that will someday lose." - Woodrow Wilson

"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare." - Daniel P. Moynihan

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." - Will Rogers

"My experience in government is that when things are non-controversial and beautifully coordinated, there is not much going on." - John F. Kennedy

"Ask not what the government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't. - Gerhard Kocher

"The best minds in government? If any were, business would hire them away." - Ronald Reagan

"Government is not the doctor. It is the disease." - H.S. Ferns

"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - Henry Luis Mencken

"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill

"The most important political office is that of private citizen." - Louis Brandeis

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you think you want to hear." - Alan Coren

"You don't pay taxes - they take taxes." - Chris Rock

Readings

"Take stock of those around you and you will ... hear them talk in precise terms about themselves and their surroundings, which would seem to point to them having ideas on the matter. But start to analyse those ideas and you will find that they hardly reflect in any way the reality to which they appear to refer, and if you go deeper you will discover that there is not even an attempt to adjust the ideas to this reality. Quite the contrary: through these notions the individual is trying to cut off any personal vision of reality, of his own very life. For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with this terrible reality, and tries to cover it over with a curtain of fantasy, where everything is clear. It does not worry him that his 'ideas' are not true, he uses them as trenches for the defense of his existence, as scarecrows to frighten away reality." - Jose Ortega y Gasset

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